(Chorus 1)  
D                         A
 Jimmy, please say you ll wait for me  
A7                 D
 I ll grow up some day you ll see  
D7                    G
 Saving all my kisses just for you  
A                     A7   D
 Signed with love for ever true.  
D                      A
 Joni was the girl who lived next door  
                             D
I ve known her, I guess, ten years or more  
D7               G
 Joni wrote me a note one day  
A                     A7     D
 And this is what she had to say  
  
(Chorus 1)  
D                  A 
 Slowly I read her note once more  
     A7                 D
Then I went over to the house next door  
    D7                  G
Her teardrops fell like rain that day  
     A                  A7     D
When I told Joni what I had to say.  
  
(Chorus 2)  
D           A
Joni, Joni, please don t cry  
A7               D
You ll forget me by and by  
       D7                G
You re just fifteen, I m twenty-two  
    A                  A7       D
And Joni, I just can t wait for you.  
D                A
 Soon I left our little hometown  
A7                        D
Got me a job and tried to settle down  
        D7                     G
But the words kept haunting my memory  
A                   A7      D
The words that Joni said to me  
  
(Chorus 1)  
D                         A 
I packed my clothes and I caught a plane  
  A7                 D
I had to see Joni, I had to explain  
       D7                        G
How my heart was filled with her memory  
A                        A7    D
And ask my Joni if she d marry me  
D                        A
I ran all the way to the house next door  
    A7                       D
But things weren t like they were before.  
   D7                  G
My teardrops fell like rain that day  
     A                 A7     D
When I heard what Joni had to say  
  
(Chorus 3)  
D             A
Jimmy, Jimmy, please don t cry  
A7               D
You ll forget me by and by  
     D7                    G
It s been five years since you ve been gone  
A                     A7          D
Jimmy, I married your best friend John.  
  
As always, this may not be exactly right, but should get you started. I leave   
out the apostrophes because they come up funny when they transfer.  
  
Have fun.  
  
Lee